Huntsville gazette., 1887-09-17
PERSONAL AND GENER Al.

catching from an engine that was being |
cleaned. Two locomotives were la mag ed |
to the extent of s., 900. Total loss, 8O, 600; |
insured.
RUSSIA informs the Powers that Prince |
Ferdinand must quit as ruler of Bul garia, !
ss h. rulership.is in viotsssion os tbs Ber-
lin treaty, or else she will disresgard the |
entire treaty and take her own W ay, of re-
moving the pretender
THE French Government is highly elated |
over the success Of the recent arr ~ mob
ilization experiment.
GUSTAvUS WICHMANN, treasurer OF the
village Of Reading, Hamilton County. o.,
is short in his accounts $1,000. His bonds
men will make the town good
THE committee of arrangements for the
constitutional centennial celebration in
Philadelphia have organized uedi-
cal and surgical service in view of pos
sible casualties.
A LARGE farmers meeting was held in
Waterloo, Ont, on the 10th. which pro-
nounced unanimously in favor of CON-
mercial union with the United States.
FIVE saw-mills were burned at Min
neapolis, Minn., ON the night of the 10TH
Loss $270,000; insurance unknown.
PORTER & SAvAGE's tannery and boot
and shoe factory at Montreal, Can, were
burned on the 10th, involving loss of
over 100000. Three hundred hands are
| thrown out of employment.
Tony HART, the famous Irish comedia
| is afflicted paralysis of the glosso-l a,
muscles, caused, it is said, by . -~hial
| metics, etc, used in the "makr --ne cos
profession. He hasn't had n up OF his
| he left Ned Harrigan. -dch luck since
| THE Austrian Com
that 81 1928 deaf III at Bombay reports
| in the provi' ~As from cholera occurred
The W" -ce or Dude during last May.
at F. .rks uf the Ohio Shear Company
= ~.yria, o., were burned early on the
-aorhing of the 10th; loss, $4,000.
OLIVE LOGAN thinks Mrs. James Brown
l Potter Is ga pretty woman with fine clothes
9 on" but she can not speak Conscientious
y in favor of her acting.
WIN. McCAUSLAND, who was purchasing
cattle at McCann's landing, near Brown
vile, Pa, was murdered and robbed on
the 10th While crossing bridge at Brown
! vile. Great excitement was occasioned
by the crime and the boldness of it's per-
petrator.
d TREMENDOUS excitement has been occa-
: stoned at Winnipeg by the fling of bill
l. for an injunction against the Red River
|. Nallev reilwauy by the nemnirr author
e ties through Minister OF Justice Thomp-
1 son.
MAJOR GENERAL SIR REDvERs H.
BULLER has definitely resigned his post as
: under Secretary for Ireland.
: FRED ROME, in Jail at Clay Center,
, Neb., accused of wife murder, committed
suicide on the 11th.
, SECRETARY LAMAR is having pleasant
time at Bethlehem, n. H., and frequently
goes fishing. His wife is obliged to go
there every year on account of hay fever.
A RECONCILIATION is reported to have re-
, Gently taken place at San Francisco, be-
tween Mackay and Fair, and that big
mining deal may be looked for soon.
SECRETARY FAIRCHILD is said to have
virtually ruled that male and female clerks
can marry and not resign their positions
under the Civil-Service regulations.
THE Pennsylvania railroads new round
house, machine shops, five locomotives and
six tanks at Lewiston Junction, Pa,
were DESTROYED On the morning of the 11th
by fire. Loss, $55,000.
JOHN BRIGHT, acknowledging Mr.. Kas-
, sons invitation to the Philadelphia CEN
tennial, saws it is not pleasant to have to
refuse such an invitation. Yet he must
ask to be excused if unable to accept.
PLYMOUTH CHURCH in Brooklyn re-
opened ON the 1lth after the summer yaca-
ton. Mrs. Beecher went from Stamford,
Conn, to attend the services, and occu-
pied the family pew alone Rev. DR.. j. ).
Willis, of Milford, Del, occupied the pulpit.
THE report is denied at Washington
that Secretary Bayard has ordered
cessation of seizures of British sealers in
forbidden American waters, pending the
Droposed settlement of the fisheries dis
putes.
GENERAL MASTER WORKMAN POWDER
LY, in an interview the 11th, said his
next annual message will advocate Gov
ernment ownership of telegraph and rail-
road lines, and the establishment of a
postal savings bank. Bills viii be pre-
pared by him to carry these suggestions
into effect, and they will be submitted to
the general assembly for its approval.
GENERAL SLocUM is going to the G. A.
r. encampment at ST. Louis.
GooD reports come from the Egyptian
cotton fields.
CATTLEMEN met at Denver on the 18th
and organized the American Beef Pool.
| SIR CHARLES YOUNG, author of Jim
the Penman," is dead.
THE National Association of Journey
men Brewers met in convention at Detroit,
Mich, on the 18th.
WILLIAM O'BRIEN was jailed at Cork,
Ireland, on the 18th.
FOUR thousand coal miners went out on
strike near Shamokin, Pa, on the 18th.
CRoCKER's Iowa brigade will hold its
reunion at Davenport on the 21st and 22d
inst.
In a recent fight with Cuban filibusters
the killing of one of the invaders is report
ed by government authorities.
In a recent letter published in the Paris
, Fiaaro, Prince Ferdinand writes as if he
hoped to remain in Bulgaria.
GEORGE HAMILTON, who has been on
trial at Wyandotte, Kas., charged with
train wrecking, was acquitted by the jury.
JOHANN MosT, the Anarchist, made ap-
plication for naturalization citizen at
New York, on the 18th, but was refused.
ANOTHER collision occurred on the night
of the 18th, between constables and Ma
tionalists near Ennis, Ireland, in which
constable was killed and a number OF per-
sons were injured.